Norway Yearbook - 2003

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Health and social conditions
1 48 National Insurance. Sickness allowance days during the year1
2000 2001 2002
Sickness allowance days during the year1
Total 30 001 000 31 007 000 32 579 000
Of which: Sickness allowance days among employees 26273 000 27 247 000 28 683 000
Sickness allowance days per employed"2
Total3 13.2 13.6 14.3
Of which: Sickness allowance days among employees4 12.5 12.9 13.5
1Sickness allowance days terminated during the year or running at the end of the year. 2The number of employed persons are drawn from the
Labour Force Sample Surveys. 3Per employed person, total. 4Per employed wage earner.
Source: National Insurance Admisistration. More information: http://www.trygdeetaten noi
149 National Insurance. Expenditure on benefits during sickness. Million kroner
2000 2001 2002
Sickness benefits, total1 37870.8 41 638.0 46659.1
Sickness allowances 21 774.5 23696.9 26 117.0
Medical benefits, total 16096.3 17941.0 20542.1
Subsidies to special institutions 661.6 717.9 827.4
Dental treatment 252.1 265.3 305.6
Patients transportation 1 560.0 1 738.8 1 616.0
Medicines etc. 6537.6 7089.1 8 111.3
Orthopedical remedies, appliances etc 434.7 479.3 562.7
Reimbursements to specialists and doctors 3 144.6 3 679.3 4090.1
Reimbursements to physiotherapists and psychologists 1101.4 1 204.6 1457.4
Doctor's transportation etc. 340.5 336.2 333.4
Reimbursement of personal contribution 1 490.4 1 735.1 2 001.9
Grants 386.8 535.3 553.8
Medical benefits abroad 113.4 105.0 134.6
Other expenditure2 73.4 55.3 129.9
1Exclusive cosfinement benefit etc. 2lnclusive expenditure for patients from reciprocity countries.
Source: National Insurance Administration. More information: http:/iwww.trygdeetaten.no/
1 50 National Insurance. Benefits at childbirth and adoption
2000 2001 2002
Number
Receivers of benefit, total 128 359 127 673 125 177
Receivers of confinement benefit, total 1 112 535 113 081 111 094
Mothers 79248 78538 77215
Fathers 33 287 34 543 33 879
Houseworking receivers of confinement benefit, total2 14377 13012 12290
Receivers of benefit to persons who have adopted a
child/children, total1 1 447 1 580 1 793
Mothers 924 1 025 1164
Fathers 523 555 629
1 000 kroner
Expenditure, total 7853 586 8256491 8511 360
Confinement benefit to employed persons 7 092416 7 513 981 7 753 096
Of which: Confinement benefit for fathers 459 477 495 859 510219
Holiday allowance from confinement benefit 202 249 211 373 224 838
Confinement benefit to persons engaged in own
housework 462 126 419 401 396 643
Benefit for having birth at home 808 796 1 011
Benefit to persons who have adopted a child/children. 110939 136 783
1Parents receiving confinement benefit or adopting benefit for at least one day. 2The number of houseworking parents receiving confinement
benefit this year.
Source: National Insurance Administration. More information: http:llwww.trygdeetaten.no/
146 Statistical Yearbook of Norway 2003